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Capitalisation[edit]

Hmm, I'm starting to wonder whether or not the "correct title" is indeed "poppler" as opposed to "Poppler." A quick look at the official site clearly shows a capital 'P' in the logo. --PoprocksCk 23:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. My bad. I fixed it. Wh e re ^(talk) 01:00, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Poppler history and background[edit]

The package spec file for Poppler includes lots of information about their plans and the reason for the split from Xpdf (amicable split as far as I know, although fork often implies otherwise). Adding here since I'm not sure of a good way to cite it. http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files/trunk/poppler.spec -- Horkana 00:56, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another reason is that since Xpdf is dual-licensed (commercial licenses are available), its author only accepts contributions which assign him the copyright, thus enabling him to sell the code. Not everyone accepts that.--Oneiros 21:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Free Software[edit]

This and many other free software pages are being vandalized by an anonymous user by the IP 142.151.175.39 (contribs), repeatedly adding "and open source" to "this is free software". We all know OS is a subset of FS, so adding this is superfluous, and seems a bit biased to me. — Isilanes 15:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Which open source licenses are not also free licenses? There are also free licenses that aren't OSI-certified, so I don't think "subset" is accurate. I think "free" is appropriate for this article, but for other reasons: poppler is hosted by "freedesktop.org" & they don't mention "open source" on their website. --Karnesky 17:03, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See my March 8th comment on this subject in the Inkscape talk page. Basically, if FS = OS, then GPL software (and all other software under free licenses) should be called FS (FS+OS is redundant, OS is biased against default term). If FS != OS, then OS is wrong. Hardly ever could something be called OS. — Isilanes 12:38, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not every free software is also open source. IrfanView for example is free (for non-commercial uses), but the source is kept private by its developer. --L.Willms (talk) 07:32, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cairo comment[edit]

The Cairo comment is wrong, poppler does not "use" cairo, has "the option to use" cairo, also antialiased vector graphics, transparent objects and building on non-X platforms is already supported on plain xpdf renderer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.57.131.176 (talk) 09:11, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction[edit]

The introduction could be better written. As it stands, it's quite difficult to understand. baiusmc

Does poppler do OCR?[edit]

Is the Optical Character Recognition functionality in Evince provided by poppler? Gronky (talk) 18:01, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, poppler doesn't do OCR. Source: am poppler maintainer - Tsdgeos (talk) 20:25, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaned UP[edit]

I have cleaned up most of this page, made it more understandable found citations, etc. I cannot find a discussion/topic regarding deletion, I am going to have a quick look to see if I didn't miss it, if I cannot find one I will remove the notice. --Gnepets (talk) 05:01, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

found link on notice, duh :) --Gnepets (talk) 05:22, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have further cleaned it up. However, I still think an expert is needed to explain what Poppler actually does. 189.235.173.179 (talk) 06:29, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expert needed. What does Poppler actually do?[edit]

What is Poppler, exactly? Is it a "backend"? Is it a "frontend"? Why does the Poppler Wiki mention "Poppler frontends" and "Rendering backends"? Beside Cairo and Splash, the article currently mentions a QT4 backend, but it doesn't elaborate much, nor provides very good references. Is it just the "normal" libpoppler ported from Qt3 to Qt4? I hope somebody in the know can explain this better, either in here or in the Xpdf article. 189.235.173.179 (talk) 06:35, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Annotations in 0.15/0.16[edit]

Version 0.16 was released on december 27th. I think it implements the ability to add text annotations, so someone should update the article to reflect that (among other things). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.171.113 (talk) 15:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

splash[edit]

something called 'splash' is mentioned as a backend. but there is no information about what it is. --87.127.117.246 (talk) 12:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Error in configuring poppler in mac osx tiger[edit]

I am getting following error when i run ./configure command in terminal

onfigure: error: in `/Users/hassanimran/desktop/poppler/poppler-0.20.2': > configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it > is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full > path to pkg-config. > > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS > and FONTCONFIG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. > See the pkg-config man page for more details. > > To get pkg-config, see <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>. > See `config.log' for more details

Any one help me out Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.109.41.176 (talk) 04:44, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Verifying ISO 32000-1 compliance[edit]

The FSF statement only speaks to the goals of GNU PDF, viz., "[t]he goal of the GNU PDF project from its beginning in 2007 was to provide a complete implementation of the emerging ISO standard for PDF, ISO 32000-1." The statement further reports that libpoppler "[had] matured its support for these and other PDF features," but makes no claims regarding the completeness of said implementation. Ustawa (talk) 19:39, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

0.63 available[edit]

See https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=f26285f361478219ea9d3c6de1529ecd5ff96ac9 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810B:C53F:B9E8:9FC:4727:6723:89EC (talk) 15:01, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

JS Support[edit]

I doubt poppler actually supports JS: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/162

The citation for JS support in the Wikipedia article comes from a Linux Magazine article whose title makes a claim that is not supported by the article's contents. 75.91.200.212 (talk) 11:35, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]